Executive Director

Apoorva comes to HEP from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where he spent the last 15 years working on his passion of delivering health services to the most vulnerable across the world.  He played a pivotal role in the global effort to eradicate polio, helping reduce cases by 99%, and has facilitated outreach to millions of vulnerable children in conflict countries with lifesaving vaccines. He is also passionate about supporting refugees and serves on the Board of Collateral Repair Project, an organization dedicated to war refugees based in Amman, Jordan. Prior to joining the Gates Foundation, Apoorva was a senior consultant with ECG Management Consultants, a healthcare consulting agency based here in Seattle.  

Prevention & Outreach Program Manager

Aura moved to Seattle from Baltimore, Maryland where she was studying applied anthropology and music. Luckily, she has been able to use both areas of study since moving to the PNW! She has a strong affinity for public service and social justice. She has been fortunate enough to work for organizations that share these values. She is thrilled to continue this work with HEP as she firmly believes in harm reduction and is passionate about supporting and empowering the people we serve!

Senior Administrative Services Manager

Brandy is an Alabama native and moved to Seattle after completing her Master’s in Business Administration. She has a background in bookkeeping, administration management, and event planning. Outside of HEP, you can find her caring for her senior kitty, Marie, her pandemic pup, Kiki, and her 8+ aquariums with a variety of fish and invertebrate.

Prevention & Outreach Program Lead Coordinator

Dale is thrilled to be a part of HEP. He is a born-and-raised Washingtonian; he grew up in Redmond and moved to Seattle after high school. After a decade of bartending around Capitol Hill and Belltown, he decided to pursue a career in human services. He completed Seattle Central College’s Social & Human Services program in 2023 and joined HEP shortly thereafter. His values align with HEP’s mission and the harm reduction model. He believes the intersection of public health and social justice is essential to affect change. In his free time, he enjoys baking, thrifting and long-distance cycling.

NVHR – Director of Policy

Daniel Raymond has a three-decade history of working in harm reduction programs, promoting the rights and dignity of people who use drugs, and advocating for policies to protect and advance drug user health. He has served as past chair of the Injection Drug Users Health Alliance, the Washington Heights CORNER Project Board of Trustees, and the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable Steering Committee. Daniel has also served on Governor Cuomo’s Heroin and Opioid Task Force, the Food and Drugs Administration’s Antiviral Drug Advisory Committee, the AASLD/IDSA Hepatitis C Guidance Panel, and the New York State Hepatitis C Elimination Task Force.

Care Coordinator

Josi started her work in human services while studying social work at Eastern Michigan University and moved to Seattle to continue her career. Today, she looks forward to furthering her work with HEP, and spending her free time birdwatching with her cat, and playing videogames with her friends.

Care Coordination Program Manager

Kimberly has worked in infectious disease control with the CDC in Arizona, supported housing social work in Seattle, and, dearest to her heart, volunteered with harm reduction groups. She is passionate about people having everything they need to survive (and thrive) in an often cruel society. She aims to be a kind, nonjudgmental support who will advocate hard for you! In her free time, she loves growing flowers and watching TV with her cat.

Development Director

LL joined HEP’s efforts to expand access to care throughout Washington State after helping launch and grow small nonprofits working to make big impacts in our communities. LL centers their lived experiences and those facing barriers to inform the work. In addition to enthusiastically pursuing resources needed to end viral hepatitis in Washington State, LL can be found in spaces where costumed bike riding, creative expression and equity advocacy are happening.

Correctional Health Program Manager

Mandy manages HEP’s prison and jail programs, which includes helping with teaching hepatitis education in Washington prisons and jails, as well as managing the National Hepatitis Corrections Network. When not at work, she enjoys travelling, photography, and random adventures. She is happy to be working with a great team at HEP and to be addressing the public health burden created by viral hepatitis.

Temporary Prevention & Outreach Program Coordinator

River can be found working the front desk or handing out supplies during street outreach. A proud queer Southerner from Little Rock, they first cut their teeth in harm reduction as a founding member of the first harm reduction nonprofit in their home state, Central Arkansas Harm Reduction Project. They are passionate about mutual aid and community care, which has led them to work in many types of public service beyond harm reduction: teaching gardening, supporting unhoused LGBTQ youth, working at a public library, and more. If they aren’t working, River is probably reading a book, on a road trip, checking out some live music, or knee deep in a creek somewhere trying to get a closer look at a weird plant. 

Lead Care Coordinator

Russell is a Wisconsin native and has an academic background in Community and Environmental Sociology, and has experience working in social service, food justice, and healthcare. He strongly believes in HEP’s harm reduction rooted service model and is passionate about health equity and providing and connecting our clients with the high-quality, low-barrier services they need to be healthy and safe. When not working, he can be found scouring Seattle for the best noodle spots, baking, gardening, entertaining his needy cat, or escaping to the forest when life gets to be too much. 

Drug Checking Coordinator

Zoe can be found working alongside her trusty FTIR spectrometer (nicknamed Theodora). Zoe started out doing harm reduction in high school in her hometown of Portland, Oregon, volunteering with the Portland People’s Outreach Project (PPOP). Zoe recently graduated with a degree in public health from the University of Washington, where she also helped establish the university’s chapter of Students for Sensible Drug Policy. She is an ardent proponent of harm reduction not only as a way to prolong drug users lives and health, but also as a pathway to autonomy, knowledge, and power. Outside of HEP Zoe loves to hang around upside down at a local circus gym, bake pastries, and go thrifting with friends.